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1. White badge with an inverted red triangle and number 1896 worn by a gay concentration camp inmate
2012.482.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.482.1
Date:
use: approximately 1940 May-approximately 1945 April
… groups, including homosexuals and Roma, were immediate priorities.. On April 13, 1939, Josef was arrested for homosexual activity as defined by paragraph…
2. Richard Grune lithograph of a torture scene witnessed in a concentration camp
2012.316.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.316.10
Date:
creation: after 1945 April-1945 December
depiction: after 1937 October-before 1945 April
… clear their position that homosexuality was antithetical to a strong Germany. Under the new government, police were enforcing the existing law, Article 6…
3. Richard Grune lithograph with an image of a child looking at a hanging victim
2012.316.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.316.11
Date:
creation: 1945 April-1945 December
depiction: after 1937 October-before 1945 April
… clear their position that homosexuality was antithetical to a strong Germany. Under the new government, police were enforcing the existing law, Article 6…
4. Concentration camp inmate uniform jacket with number patch and red triangle
1997.122.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.122.1
Date:
1937-1945 May
… prisoners, green for criminals, black for asocials or Gypsies, pink for homosexuals, and purple for Jehovah’s Witnesses. These were worn on the left side of…
5. Mickey Mouse figurine in a handmade frame
2015.83.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.83.1 a-l
Date:
creation: approximately 1941 May
use: 1941 May-1945 May
…, 1941, in Mulhouse in German occupied France for homosexuality. His mother created the boxed setting with the toy as a memorial device to remember and…
6. Concentration camp inmate uniform pants
1997.122.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.122.2
Date:
creation: 1937-1945 May
… asocials or Gypsies, pink for homosexuals, and purple for Jehovah’s Witnesses. These were worn on the left side of the chest or on the left sleeve, and…
7. US 4th War Loan poster with a soldier throwing a grenade
1988.42.30 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.42.30
Date:
publication/distribution: 1943
Series Title:
War Bonds
Artwork Title:
Let 'Em Have It : buy extra bonds
… was barred from the military because he was openly homosexual. However, he was able to work for the Graphics Division of the Office of War Information…
8. US propaganda poster depicting World War II and Revolutionary War soldiers
1988.42.46 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.42.46
Date:
publication/distribution: 1943
Artwork Title:
Americans Will Always Fight for Liberty
… was barred from the military because he was openly homosexual. However, he was able to work for the Graphics Division of the Office of War Information…
9. Bar of soap from Stutthof labor-concentration camp given to a Polish Holocaust survivor
1997.30.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.30.1
Date:
issue: 1939 November 09-1945 March 28
received: 1995 June-1995 September
…, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and homosexuals. While imprisoned at Stutthof, Czeslaw was a slave laborer, making armaments for the German Equipment Works (DAW…
10. Bar of soap from Stutthof labor-concentration camp given to a Polish Holocaust survivor
1997.30.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.30.2
Date:
issue: 1939 November 09-1945 March 28
received: 1995 June-1995 September
…, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and homosexuals. While imprisoned at Stutthof, Czeslaw was a slave laborer, making armaments for the German Equipment Works (DAW…